Brush.



BRUSH.

APPLIoATI'oN FILED uml?, 190s.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented December 22, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM H. BENNETT, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO LOVASSO FIELD, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

BRUSH.

SPECIFICATION formi-ng part of Letters lPatent No. 747,902, dated December 22, 1903. Application tiled January I7. 1903. Serial No. 139,449. (No model.)

fo all whom it may concern: Y

Beit known that I, WILLIAMYH. BENNETT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented an Improved Brush,of which the following isa specication, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side view of my brush with a ro portion ofthe back A thereof broken away so as to show the method of inserting two of the rolls a therein. Fig. 2 is a side view; Fig. 3, a vertical central sectional view, while Fig.

4 is an end view of one of such rolls a.

The purpose of my present invention is the economical construction of a durable and efIicient brush more especially adapted to the polishing of shoes and which will combine all the advantages of a cloth or felt polisher withzo out the disadvantages found in such brushes as usually constructed in that they are not durable and do not readily yield to various conformations of andy wrinkles and creases in the shoes to be polished thereby.

z5 My brush consists, as shown in Fig. 1, in a back piece A, of wood or similar material, havin-g a series of circular holes therein, within which are secured in a manner to be explained the rolls a, consisting in a ribbon of.

3o felt or similar fabric tightly rolled or wound upon a core of` bristles composed of a suitably iiexible and elastic material. These rolls a when so formed are of such a size as to tit `very tightly within the holes in the woodenv tain the rolls in their proper normal position in the brush-that is, projected at right angles with the lower face the'reof--and the conformation of these rolls, their flexibility and elasticity, owing to the coreol bristles a' in brush and one which may be subjected to al- I most any amount of harsh or rough treatment without materially injuring the rolls. A brush of this kind has also been found to serve a very good purpose as a clothes-brush, operating to readily remove lint or dust from 6o the surface of ordinary wearing-apparel, as well as for many other purposes.

What I claim isl. In a brush, in combinationV with a suitl able support therefor,abrushing-surface comprising a core of unattached bristles of suitably flexible and elastic material and a strip of fabric encircling the same.

2. In a brush, in combination with a suitable supporttherefor,abrushing-surfacecom- 7o prising a core of unattached bristles of suitably flexible and elastic material and a strip of Yfabric coiled upon itself around such core.

3. In a brush, in combination with a suitable support therefor, a strip of fabric coiled upon itself and around a core of unattached bristles of suitably iiexible'and elastic material arranged transversely to such strip of fabric.

4. In a brush, in combination with a suit- 8o able support therefor, a strip of fabric encircling a core of unattached bristles of suitably flexible and elastic material arranged transversely to such strip of fabric.

WILLIAM H. BENNETT.

Witnesses:

WM. H. COOLEY, A. PEARL MOORE. 

